Events - 2018

Design and evaluation of CityQuest, a video game aimed at older adults with fear of falling

Please join us for this Brown Bag Talk with Eugenie Roudaia, a Scientific Associate at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest. The talk will take place at the Games Institute in the Collaboration Space.

This event is free and open to all.

Please join us Tuesday, November 13 to hear Jason Hawreliak give a talk about semiotics in videogames and teaching in a dedicated game studies program. Jason is a co-founder of First Person Scholar and Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Brock University. He recently published his new book "Multimodal Semiotics and Rhetoric in Videogames".

Trauma and Demogorgons: Analyzing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in Stranger Things

Toben Racicot, GI resident and English PhD student, will give a talk in the collaboration space during our Halloween party. Come out to hear Toben talk about how the motif of D&D in Stranger Things informs how role-playing games are an unconventional tool for empowering and preparing players for future trauma.

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The Games Institute presents the next of a series of "Brown Bag Seminars" on October 16th 2018. The GI is located in EC-1, and these events are open to all members of the University of Waterloo. 

Presenter: Lindsay Meaning, English PhD candidate

This event is an opportunity to MAKE games, explore new game ideas, and interact with fellow game-lovers in an exciting and relaxed environment. Learn something, teach something, make something, and play something!

Come out on Tuesday, May 22nd and Thursday, May 24th  from 5 - 9 PM to learn the starter skills and the team spirit needed to be a strong competitor for the GI Game Jams and to work in the game industry.

Taught by the Jam veterans and indie game devs of UW Game Dev Club.